Politicians, journalists, and human rights activists weigh in on Russia’s decision to ban the ‘LGBT movement’ Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Russian Supreme Court judge Oleg Nefedov reads the decision designating the “LGBT movement” an “extremist organization.” November 30, 2023.

The Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg fined the owner of the music channel Aiva TV 500 thousand rubles in a case of "LGBT propaganda". The reason was the broadcast of the video "So beautiful" by the singer Sergey Lazarev, which was released in 2017. This was reported by the united press service of the St. Petersburg courts.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has suspended membership of the Belarusian Red Cross after the head of the society, Dmitry Shevtsov, refused to leave his post at the request of the federation. The organization noted that the board of the federation demanded that Shevtsov be removed from office after an investigation into the allegations against him.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree increasing the number of personnel in the country's army by almost 170,000 people. The document was published on the Kremlin website. According to the decree, the authorized strength of the Russian Armed Forces will be 2,209,130 ​​people, including 1,320,000 military personnel.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the list of “foreign agents” to include “an association of persons operating under the name TV Channel Dozhd.” As noted in the Dozhd telegram channel, this time a new legal entity of the TV channel was included in the list.

Russia spent 1.7 trillion rubles from the state budget on the restoration of the annexed territories of Ukraine. This was stated at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on November 30 by the director of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring, Yuri Chikhanchin. to his words .

Under his leadership, the theater collaborated with the metro-opera and invited Serebrennikov to work. And then the war began Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Urin left the post of General Director of the Bolshoi Theater after 10 years of work - his place will be taken by a conductor, artistic director and director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev.

Elena Zelenskaya, the wife of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, told The Economist that she does not want her husband to be elected president for another term. Fragments of an interview with the First Lady of Ukraine were published in the publication’s daily podcast. According to The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, who spoke with Zelenskaya in September, the wife of the Ukrainian leader is confident that Ukraine will win the war with Russia.

Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" For almost five years of the law on the “disrespect for power”, the Russian courts received 681 administrative cases under the relevant article. This is stated in the material "Siberia. Real", which studied the judicial data. The law "On disrespect for power" entered into force in March 2019.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How will LGBTK-loves live in Russia now that the authorities actually declared them outside the law? On November 30, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation declared an “extremist organization” and banned in Russia a non -existent “international public movement of LGBT”. The ban on a fictional structure has nothing to do with the right and with a high probability will have catastrophic consequences for the LGBTK community.

The main thing from The New York Times AP / Scanpix / Leta Hamas militants with the captured Israeli tank near the border of the Gaza and Israel sector, October 7, 2023 The command of the Israeli army and intelligence learned about the Hamas attack plan more than a year before October 7, 2023, when this attack occurred, the journalists of The New York Times found out , talking with several officials. The invasion of the militants was described in details - exactly as it happened.

A double train explosion on a key railway in Russia’s Far East was reportedly orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence UFD The bridge on the Baikal–Amur Mainline railroad’s detour route around the Severomuysky Tunnel is raised 35 meters (115 feet) from the ground On the night of November 29, a train car caught fire while traveling through the Severomuysky Tunnel on the Baikal–Amur Mainline railroad (BAM) in Russia’s Republic of Buryatia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree amending the composition of the Human Rights Council (HRC). The document was published on the Kremlin website.

St. Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko has filed an appeal against her seven-year prison sentence for spreading “fakes” about the Russian army, reports Interfax, referencing the joint press service of the St. Petersburg courts. Skochilenko’s lawyers filed the appeal on November 30, according to St. Petersburg’s Vasileostrovsky district court, which is reviewing the case. Skochilenko was arrested in April 2022 for placing anti-war messages in a grocery store on top of price tags.

Journalists from Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service, together with a team of volunteers, confirmed from open sources the identities of 38,261 Russian military personnel who died during the full-scale war in Ukraine. Over the past two weeks (from November 17 to December 1), almost 1,200 people were added to the list of dead, while Mediazona notes that the real numbers are higher - journalists do not have time to process the flow of data.